Word: reel
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Probably the most interesting reel on the program is a Pete Smith Specialty showing scenes from about a dozen of last year's football games. In the course of ten minutes, you can see Glenn Davis, Doe Blanchard, Bobby Layne, Charlie Trippi, and others in a series of spectacular runs and passes, nearly all of which go for seventy and eighty-yard touchdowns. Later on, in the newareel a Columbia end called Swiacki catches several passes from a prose position and beats Army. All in all, there is no grid lack at the U.T. this week...
...taxi driver has brilliant dialogue and real human feeling. This and the splendid acting of Agues Moorchead as a pestiferous, petulant "femme fatale" give the show its only speed. When Bogart and Miss Bacall get together the picture moves along at a lazy snail's pace. During the last reel the two lovers hike off to Peru, presumably forever. This seems like a very fine idea...
Towards the middle of the second reel, a few of the more interested members of the audience will discern a plot snuggling its way into the epic. It now appears that Robert Donat has been dancing altogether too many quadrilles with the queen, who is not incongruously impersonated by Binnie Barnes Donat, who happens to be playing an innocuous courtier named Cromwell, seems to have a prior claim, but after a few innocent bearhugs, he and Binnie go the way of all people Henry knew, and the latter, in the absence of a psychiatrist, marries again. But his spirit...
...derived from calling the plays beforehand, but in "The Homestretch," which happens to be about horse-racing, the average spectator will soon tire of matching wits with a plodding script-writer. Maureen O'Hara and Cornel Wilde join and separate as mechanically as two participants in a Virginia reel, with the much-abused backdrop of horse races and a stately Marlyland homestead. But there is nothing positively unpleasant about the picture: blushing technicolor is made the most of, especially in the newsreel shots of the English coronation, and the photography of the races is really very good...
...hard. One man, rowing along the shore one morning with his rod draped over the stern, suddenly saw the rod fly up as if alive. He dropped his oars and dived for it, splitting his chin open on the boat's gunwale. The fish got away, taking rod & reel with...